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Interesting Times – Update 15

I could basically copy the fall update into this winter one. I still feel wonderful, and most all of my numbers are great. For somebody without a thyroid, I’m stellar. I work hard on that in a lot of ways and it’s very good to know that effort is working.

The fly in the ointment is still my thyroglobulin. In my case, that’s the tumor marker. It should be zero. It was something like 60 before I had surgery. Then something like 30 before I had radioactive iodine. And since then it’s been 1.5, 1.5, 1.8, 1.95, and now 2.35. And obviously those numbers are:

really low

but not zero

and increasing

So it’s time for more and different tests to understand as much as possible. (If you’re curious, the next round will be a Thyrogen-stimulated whole-body scan.) Endocrinologist Mona says it might just mean more watching and waiting. It might, eventually, be another round of radioactive iodine. It could eventually, possibly, be another surgery.

I tried to finish this post, but I’m just repeating things I’ve said before. If you go back and read the last few updates they kind of tell you where I’m at. Basically: I’m not as okay with this news yet as I really ought to be on paper, but I know worrying does nothing and I’m working on it. That’s about it.